Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Love this ram lamb. He's really packing the meat and inherited the Katahdin coat. I can't wait to use him on my experiment dairy ewes.

I will be constantly kicking myself for not having papers on Louis so I could record this guy along with other Louis offspring. He's really beautiful and has a lot to offer.

He will be for sale in November after our primary breeding season.

Should I use a different ram lamb because I can have recording papers? I dunno. Sylvius is certainly the best dairy cross we've produced.

I have to keep reminding myself of the goal here. We brought dairy sheep into the flock to have a few to milk, but primarily to add to our Katahdin genetics and reinforce the beautiful, heavy milking, quick weight gain, and high birth rates.

Sylvius may be a detour on full registration on our project, but he's a great stepping stone to the look, confirmation, and lines I want. He also has the most color of any Katahdin/Dairy cross born here and a promising coat.

....Still some decisions to make, but for now, he's certainly staying on the farm.

Dotty has lambed twice producing and raising five healthy lambs.She is a small ewe. Her mother was a good 250lbs, but Dotty was bred much younger and doesn't look as impressive. She's a good mom with excellent lines.

Available June 1st$175

I know this is a bit of an unflattering view... Another picture coming. :-)

Adult Ewe0004 OpehliaMarch 2009Triplet - QQCommercial Katahdin

Gave us twins this year.

Available June 1st$150

Red ewe. All three lambs are her 2011 triplets.

Adult eweKRK 42 RosalindFebruary 17th 2003

Twin - QR

Sire: NF 574

Dam: BSA 114Registered Katahdin

I've had her for two lambings and she's given me six lambs. Excellent mother. Carries her babies very low. Real sweetie. Good home only. :-)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Bred to four ewes.Eight lambs (1,2,2,3). Eight survivors. Three ewe lambs, five rams.

KRK 1068 Judah Ben-Hur

Bred to three ewes.Six lambs (2,2,2). Four survivors. One ewe lamb, five rams.

DWB 14M Leipzig

Bred to one ewe.

Three lambs (3). Three survivors. One ewe, two rams.

The Ewes

CKN 321 AravisBirth Info: Twin 2/1/06

2008 - 3/32009 - 2/2

2010 - 2/22011 - 1/2Five years old. Nine lambs. Eight successful.

DWB 10A Parsley

Birth Info: Triplet 1/9/08

2009 - 2/22008 - 1/1

2011 -2/2Three years old. Five lambs. Five successful.

VJ 4025 Athens

Birth Info: Twin 3/2/04

2005-2008 Records unknown2010 - 4/2011 - 1/1Seven years old. One year with us. One successful.

KRK 42 Rosalind

Birth Info: Twin 2/17/03

2004-2009 Records Unknown

2010 - 3/32011 - 3/3

Eight years old. Two years with us. Six successful.

DWB 10M Dotty

Birth Info: Triplet 2/29/09

2010 - 2/2

2011 -3/3Two years old. Five lambs. Five successful.

DWB10P HagarBirth Info: Twin 4/25/09

2011 -2/2

Will be two years old. Two lambs. Two successful.

003 Juliet (Commercial Katahdin)Birth Info: Triplet 3/09

2011 -1/2

Two years old. Two lambs. One successful.

002 Ophelia (Commercial Katahdin)Birth Info: Triplet 3/09

2011 -2/2

Two years old. Two lambs. Two successful.

Maggie (Dairy)Birth Info: Triplet 5/7/07

2010 (first lambing) - 3/3

2011 -1/3

Will be four years old. Six lambs. Four successful.

KRK Mercy

Birth Info: Twin 7/10/09Still waiting. :-)

2011Current total: 9 ewes, 20 lambs. 16 surviving lambs.

Ram Lambs: 11Ewe Lambs: 5

Posts on various lambing adventures when time permits. We were so blessed yesterday to get two sets of lively triplets! Everyone on the ground is doing well and we hope the ewes raise them all healthy through weaning.

Drowsy Waters

This blog is dedicated to the happenings at Drowsy Waters.

Although there are other animals around the farm, Katahdin Hair Sheep are our main focus. We have been working with these amazing sheep since 1999 and have developed a passion and vision for the breed.

This blog hold stories, updates, and ramblings of the primary flock caretaker on current events in the sheep world to small incidents in the barn.

DW's Lemongrass

Holland Lop Rabbits

We enjoy showing (and sometimes winning) as well as breeding our Hollands. As of 2009 we cut back on showing but still enjoy working with these sweet bunnies.

Besides being excellent show rabbits, Hollands are the perfect pet. We have been really blessed to be working with some of the amazing stock from all the great breeders here on the west coast!

Texas

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

Alexander the Great

Parsley

"Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one."

Amelia and Vienna

"If you have men who exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

St. Francis of Assisi

Hermen

"To err is human- to forgive, canine"

Rebel

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

Cicero

John 10:11-16

"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep have I which are not of this fold: them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

Class of Jr Ram Lambs

Louis ~ Eight year old RR ram

Holland Babies

Dairy ewe with her triplets.

KRK 977 ~ Johann~ Registered RR yearling ram.

Twin from a yearling ~ Seven month old ram lamb.

BOB Holland Lop

"Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." ~Proverbs 27:23~